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Carol J. Loomis / CNNMoney.com:
A conversation with Warren Buffett — FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: Editor-at-large Carol Loomis speaks with Buffett on why he sped up his plan to give away his money and why he chose the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - Coming from you, this plan is pretty startling.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Warren Buffet to give his fortune to Gates Foundation — Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the world, announced he is giving the vast majority of his $44 Billion dollar fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I said in an earlier post that "Bill Gates legacy will be humanitarian philanthropy".
Carol J. Loomis / CNNMoney.com:
Warren Buffett gives away his fortune — FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Rafat / paidContent.org:
The Next Big Step: Announcing Our Funding, from Patricof's Greycroft Partners [by Rafat] — The biggest step till now was me deciding to go full time with the blog, back in early 2003. This tops that: — The news: ContentNext Media, the parent company of our three sites - paidContent.org …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ningbar Launches, Plus Ning Stats — Palo Alto based Ning made a significant change to their application interface on Friday, removing the mandatory sidebar on applications and replacing it with a fully customizable javascript bar across the top of the page. — I met with CEO Gina Bianchini a week ago to see the changes.
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Brian W. McCallister / Brian McCallister:Ningbar Baby! — Last night (well, in the wee hours of this morning …
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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Waiting for the Dough on the Web — NOW and then, an executive whose brain I'm siphoning will turn the tables and pose a question. And lately, I've been getting a few versions of this: "You talk to a lot of the traditional media companies. Who do you think has got this Internet thing figured out?"
Beth / Beth's Blog:
Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans — It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in Second Life today. I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted …
Stuart / Popgadget:
Egokast video belt buckle — Oh, decisions, decisions. What belt shall I wear tonight to set off my new outfit? Hmm, the traditional leather? The one with the clamp fastener or the metal buckle? I guess I'll just settle on the one with the 3" video display where I can insert an SD card …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Look, New Name For Gada.be — Tag metasearch engine Gada.be (TechCrunch posts describing the service are here) is getting a name change and a redesign at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle later this week (Chris Pirillo founded the company and also runs the conference).
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
The Incredible Shrinking Newspaper — Newspapers are dying, but the news is thriving. — That high-pitched squealing you hear in the background is the sound of the American newspaper shrinking. — The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Advertisers: You're next — I'm seeing a lot of avoidance of the elephant that isn't quite in the room yet but is banging at the door: — Advertising is the next big industry to suffer huge upheaval thanks to the internet. They may think they're already there, but they're not, not by a long shot.
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Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Zombie builders send out phone texts — Hackers are trying to lure people to a malicious Web site using cell phone text messages, a security company has warned. — The blended attack uses social engineering techniques in its attempt to trick people to the site, security vendor Websense said in an advisory.
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Andy Abramson / Working Anywhere:
Boeing May Toss Off Connexion — I'm one of the happy users who has been on a series of intercontinental flights on both Lufthansa and SAS who has used the Boeing In Flight Internet Service and it has worked as advertised. Hopefully Boeing won't mothball it.
Carlfish / The Fishbowl:
WE COME TO BURY WINFS... The first thing to strike me about the blog post announcing the end of WinFS as a Vista feature is how totally un-blog-like it is. — Every comment (bar one) got the point. WinFS is dead. Its carcass is being split between SQL Server and ADO.NET …
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Cisco leads $15.5 million investment in IPTV start-up, Akimbo — Cisco Systems, perceived by some as a faceless, somewhat boring Internet router company, wants to get more personal. — There's nothing it would rather do than enter your living room, plop itself down on your couch …
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Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Digg users spurred to register and contribute — My story yesterday, "Digg's 8 million "social freeloaders", in which I discuss the Social Web's very low user contribution ratio, has spurred passive Digg readers to become active Digg contributors! — Registered, active Digg user "kazzyD" …
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